Memorial Day weekend, Part 3 Monday

Today proved to be a great day of kiting. Who knew when you rubbed the ikitesurf wind report last night.

Quite a few kiter's came out today. There weren't as many as the day of the Clinic, but there were quite a few....I didn't bother to count them.

The wind hasn't come up yet but everyone was poised for it.

The kiter's were ready when it started blowing.

When the wind started to come up everyone with a kite was off the beach.

Obviously Omar had a great day. I think he was flying a new kite too. Let me see.... how many kites do you have in your quiver....five. Omar, you are covering all the bases.

Dan and I had a great day. At one point with the wind raging I tried to signal to Dan for a back of the island adventure. He didn't know what I was trying to say so he went back to the shore. With the wind as strong as it was I went behind Chaffee Island. But the best story was when we were packing up and Bobby walked up the ramp and said that he and Tony had done a down-winder to Seal and he got a ride back to Belmont by John Fitzgerald. Thanks John.

As we were walking back home Dan heard a sound that was like a snow blower, but it was a guy getting really "BIG" air. Wait a minute he has an engine, that's cheating.

The three powered paragliders flew up from Seal Beach. You can get more info at http://www.americanparagliding.com/

The last kiter standing. The wind was still blowing as we headed home.

Dan had one more thing to do, he wanted to change the brakes on his Chevy Avalanche. I had not idea he had it in him doing these mechanical things. It must have come from Ruth's dad. And guess what the brakes worked and he had no extra parts either.